Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Shadrach"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Shadrach
Aku's command, the Chaldean name given to Hananiah, one of the
Hebrew youths whom Nebuchadnezzar carried captive to Babylon
(Dan. 1:6, 7; 3:12-30). He and his two companions refused to bow
down before the image which Nebuchadnezzar had set up on the
plains of Dura. Their conduct filled the king with the greatest
fury, and he commanded them to be cast into the burning fiery
furnace. Here, amid the fiery flames, they were miraculously
preserved from harm. Over them the fire had no power, "neither
was a hair of their head singed, neither had the smell of fire
passed on them." Thus Nebuchadnezzar learned the greatness of
the God of Israel. (See {ABEDNEGO}.)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shadrach \Sha"drach\, n. (Metal.)
A mass of iron on which the operation of smelting has failed
of its intended effect; -- so called from Shadrach, one of
the three Hebrews who came forth unharmed from the fiery
furnace of Nebuchadnezzar. (See --Dan. iii. 26, 27.)
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